596 S 2nd St

596 S 2nd St is a 5-story building in Downtown San José with 87% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 54 homes and scores it 82 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

CA-16 · Screened 2026-09-12 · Strong candidate

596 S 2nd St — 87% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The hatched area is windowless core: 1,885 sq ft per floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. Deepest interior point: 50 ft from the nearest window.

This building does not pencil on its own, but a modeled RESIDE Act grant closes the gap.

Every floor carries 1,885 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, seismically braced and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment. Across 4 residential floors that is 7,539 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 596 S 2nd St, 2026-09-12.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate82 / 100
Storiesfrom 65 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor5
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint14,652 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade87%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft50 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable1,885 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average54
Conversion cost$405/sq ft all-in on 58,609 sq ft$23.7M
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value$787K
Modeled RESIDE grantbelow the statutory cap$3.2M
ZoningNaglee ParkDC(PD)

These figures are a screen, not a feasibility study, and they come from public footprint and height data rather than from plans. See how this was computed and what it cannot tell you, or open this building in the interactive survey to change the assumptions behind it.